California Folk Music Project records, 1938-1942.

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California Folk Music Project records, 1938-1942.

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Collection includes administrative documents; English translations of articles on folk music; material on music in the California missions; lists of California songsters and hymnals; song texts with references to California; material on Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American folk songs; sketches, scale drawings, and tracings of folk instruments; sound tape reel copies of performances, and original glass sound discs. Included also are 3x5 card file indexes of known recordings, photographs of performers, instruments, songsters, hymnals, and bibliographies.

ARCHIVES WPA CAL 1: 12 boxes, 6 drawings, 79 original glass sound discs,MUSI TS11 v.1-12: 12 v. (16 tape reels, some duplicates)

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Online Archive of California

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California Folk Music Project.

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Begun in 1938, the California Folk Music Project, also known as the Archive of California folk music (O.P.65-1-08-62 unit A-25, Area Unit serial no. 0803-1659), was conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, whose name was changed to Work Projects Administration in 1939. From the description of California Folk Music Project records, 1938-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83211529 ...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

University of California (1868-1952). Dept. of Music.

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